| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 361 pages :) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Reading Bordo -- In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body -- Whose Body Is This? -- Are Mothers Persons? -- Hunger as Ideology -- Anorexia Nervosa -- The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity -- Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism -- Material Girl" -- Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape--finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"--Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001) |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1993; First paperback printing 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-342) and index |
| Notes |
Print version |
| In |
ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subject |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States
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Human body -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Body image -- United States
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Self-esteem in women -- United States
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Feminist criticism -- United States
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Feminist literary criticism -- United States
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Body image
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Feminist criticism
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Self-esteem in women
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520240544 |
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0520240545 |
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